'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carré - aka the Cat and Agent Victoire - is so
extraordinary it almost defies belief' The Times An exhilarating true story of espionage
resistance and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents. Occupied Paris 1940. A woman in a
red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré codenamed 'the
Cat' later known as Agent Victoire - charismatic daring and a spy. These are the darkest days
for France yet Mathilde is driven by a sense of destiny that she will be her nation's saviour.
Soon she is at the centre of the first great Allied intelligence network of the Second World
War. But as Roland Philipps shows in this extraordinary account of her life when the Germans
close in Mathilde makes a desperate and dangerous compromise. Nobody - not her German handler
nor the Resistance and the British - can be certain where her allegiances now lie... 'A truly
astonishing story meticulously and brilliantly told' Philippe Sands author of The Ratline
'Gripping... Enough plot twists and moral ambiguity to satisfy any spy novelist' Spectator
